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it is Hebrew, just in a now defunct script. I didn't see anything majorly informative in the transcription, in case you were wondering.

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Well it’s not Hebrew, the Hebrew alphabet is based on Aramaic in fact it’s essentially identical to “square” aka western Aramaic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Neo-Aramaic

Before that proto/paleo-Hebrew used the same Canaanite scripts that were common in the region, the closest thing we have to that today is Samaritan.

Even in rabbinic Hebrew, the name for this script is כתב עברי (Hebrew writing), and the name for the script used today is כתב אשורית (Assyrian writing).

i meant that Hebrew has several scripts.

Pre-captivity Hebrew used the Phoenician alphabet, post exile the Chaldean (square) one.

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